Henrik Koster

Henrik Koster (1925-) was a Danish Resistance member during World War II.

Biography
Henrik Koster was the son of Doctor Karl Koster and his wife Doris, and he was the older brother of Else. Koster was born and raised in Copenhagen, Denmark, and he became secretly involved with the Danish Resistance as a teenager. In September 1943, Koster and his friend Jorgen Christiansen took part in the theft of a weapons shipment from the German Wehrmacht; they were also involved with handing out anti-Nazi leaflets. They later took part in the Rescue of the Danish Jews with other university students, and Koster and his female companion Ingrid Jensen kissed in the woods to distract a patrol of German soldiers from going after Danish Jews who were being evacuated by Christiansen. Koster was later captured by the Germansafter being stopped at a roadblock, and he was freed with the help of Christiansen, who was killed while freeing Koster. Koster and the other resistance members would proceed to escort the Jews to a pier in northern Denmark, where Koster, the resistance, and the Jews left for Sweden on fishing boats, becoming refugees. They would all return home at the end of the war in 1945.